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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 2h

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 5h

Christopher Columbus himself was a monster, but Columbus Day was instituted in 1892 to combat rising anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry after the lynching of eleven Italian-Americans. The same revanchists defending Columbus Day as "part of our US heritage" in 2025 would have opposed it in 1892.

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 5h

This is the way

It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 5h

People organizing in #Chicago to protect children from violent ICE attacks.

"Armed with whistles and know-your-rights pamphlets, community volunteers call themselves “guardian angels.” Together, they secure...elementary, middle and high schools across the city." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

‘Angels’ step in after federal agents use tear gas near Chicago school

Mayor Brandon Johnson said the incident in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood sent students scrambling.

www.yahoo.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

What I learned from Miss Major was persistence and also keeping a sense of humor. I was lucky to see her work in various organizing meetings over the years. She was a model of how to be a good elder. Truly grateful for everything she did to make the world better. Time for the rest of us to continue.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 1d

The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.

Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 1d

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10h

Prepping for Halloween. We never get any kids at the house (because we live out of town at the end of a long driveway) but kids show up at the church for trick or treat, so we'll be ready. And indeed we are the Full-Sized Candy Bar People because we can be, and if you can, why wouldn't you.

Boxes of candy bars, M&Ms, Skittles, and Starbursts

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 9h

Hell yeah

Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 12h

CAPE VERDE, POPULATION 560,000, QUALIFY FOR A FIRST-EVER WORLD CUP 🇨🇻

The second-smallest nation ever to achieve that feat. Every US state has a bigger population, yet the Blue Sharks are on their way to football's big dance. Astonishing and inspiring 🦈

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 11h

A massive storm that brought a record storm surge to Alaska was poorly forecast, and “this is one of the clearest possible examples to date where missing upper air soundings due to NWS constraints may have led to a degraded forecast.”

Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 11h

Sunday a massive storm surge event from the remnants of Typhoon Halong caused catastrophic damage in remote western Alaska. Thanks to @alaskawx.bsky.social for his help with this deep dive, including the forecast challenges in an area dealing with reduced NWS upper air soundings
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Historic coastal flooding strikes western Alaska

Remnants of Typhoon Halong produce hurricane force winds and push massive storm surge inland in Kuskokwim River Delta, destroying and carrying away homes, leaving devastated communities.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 12h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12h

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 12h

Doesn't sound great you guys:

“We can no longer talk about tipping points as a future risk,” said Prof Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute. “The first tipping of widespread dieback of warm water coral reefs is already under way.”

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Ron Cassie @humanpoweredcity.bsky.social · 15h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day to America's and Maryland's and Baltimore's Native People.

This Land Was Their Land: Baltimore’s Lumbee Indians Claim Their History

Thousands of members of the tribe migrated to Upper Fells Point after World War II. Decades later, Native Americans are only now seeing their stories celebrated as part of the “American story” in main...

www.baltimoremagazine.com

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 15h

Big one today, folks. In-person even! Wish me luck, y’all

Image shows a man wearing a suit and blue tie and shirt from the neck down.

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Dylan Segelbaum @dylansegelbaum.bsky.social · 18h

By Wesley Case: Carmelo Anthony talks Enoch Pratt exhibit, Baltimore and what his critics got wrong. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Carmelo Anthony talks Enoch Pratt exhibit, Baltimore and what his critics got wrong

New basketball Hall of Fame inductee Carmelo Anthony talks to The Banner about his career-spanning exhibit at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, misunderstandings about his career and more.

www.thebanner.com

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 18h

I’m glad, but make no mistake: rerouting funding to an organization means they are washing their hands of administering this.

Meaning if there’s abuse, they will not be investigating. Meaning this is yet another step towards privatization of education, particularly for disabled students.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h

NEW: Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.

Education Dept. Reverses Decision to Halt Funds for Deafblind Student Programs

Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.

www.propublica.org

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 18h

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 18h

Baltimore! Check out senior dude Blu! Looks like a total sweetie. 13/10 Would solve mysteries with

Charlie Dog! @charlietotherescue.bsky.social · 1d

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In Baltimore, MD... but would love a road trip to a new, loving home that would appreciate sweet Blu!

Blu Breed

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sq🎃🎃ky from:me @skeet.best · 2d

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 2d

girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy

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Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded.
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Did you make up these numbers?
Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet,
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Jason of the Resistance @jasongooljar.org · 1d

This is America.

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#FireJohnHarbaugh

🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno you guys. Maybe the Ravens just suck. Maybe they’re just a poorly coached team that is genuinely bad at football

🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 1d

As I was saying…

🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno you guys. Maybe the Ravens just suck. Maybe they’re just a poorly coached team that is genuinely bad at football

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dr. eerie katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 1d

Wanna think about something other than football? OMG the final Baltimore's Confederate Shadows: Mount Vernon to Midtown tour is this Wednesday evening

Full Story Baltimore @fullstorybaltimore.tours · 2d

Next up: the final one of these ⬇️ tours, on Wednesday! Oct 15, 7pm, get tix @ fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#c...

Full Story Baltimore @fullstorybaltimore.tours · 14d

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno you guys. Maybe the Ravens just suck. Maybe they’re just a poorly coached team that is genuinely bad at football

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ve definitely had spicier tamales” is just baller af

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

This frog will need to get the Nobel peace prize … and the Presidential Medal of Freedom some day. 🙏🏼🐸

“I’ve definitely had spicier tamales,” says Portland ICE protest frog that feds pepper sprayed - per the Oregonian.

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